Senior Devops Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Devops Engineer

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol

HOURS:  Full time   

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site  

About this opportunity 

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re moving to the next stages of our digital transformation, and it’s our job within the Chief Security Office (CSO) to ensure that we keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe from threat.

Join our engineering team and play a pivotal role in the Security Data and AI Lab, where you’ll help shape the Group’s cloud strategy and drive innovation through advanced data and AI solutions. By leveraging cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, your contributions will have a direct impact on our product operations, unlocking significant opportunities to enhance customer service and propel business growth. This work forms the cornerstone of our organisation and is essential in building the Bank of the Future.

The sheer pace and scale of change taking place in the data space means there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us. With a modern technology toolset at our fingertips, we'll build even more opportunities to get the most from our data.

The ideal candidate will have expertise with cloud platforms and a solid background in implementing and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application development and deployment processes.

• Compose, implement, and oversee scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

• Automate recurring processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

• Work closely with development, operations, and product teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications.

• Engage with the team Product Owner and other leadership team members in crafting and solutioning products for customers

• Monitor delivery pipeline performance, solve issues, and optimise to ensure high availability.

• Enforce security protocols and uphold compliance standards throughout the cloud environment.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and operational procedures

• Promote and support Agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

• Act as a lead engineer for more junior DevOps engineers on the team, being a point of contact for referral and mentoring

• Generally, support the growth of a strong team by mentoring early career engineers and building a network across the DevOps community.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrated expertise in DevOps engineering.

• Proficiency in working with CI/CD tools including Spinnaker, Jenkins, Harness, Terraform, GitHub, Docker or similar.

• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, or Bash.

• Practical experience with automation tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms (e.g., Terraform).

• Familiarity with cloud services, particularly GCP

• Demonstrated background in containerisation and orchestration with Kubernetes experience and knowledge a must-have

• Knowledge of constructing secure systems while following enterprise security and compliance guidelines.

• Solid teamwork abilities, capable of persuading and coordinating varied teams towards a common goal.

• Knowledge of artefact repositories and their role in software delivery.

• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace).

• Proactive individual capable of working autonomously, advancing various development projects simultaneously.

In addition, any experience of these would be useful:

• Knowledge of Kubeflow deployments or experience delivering platforms built for AI use cases e.g. through Vertex AI,

• Experience migrating capabilities from one cloud platform to another.

• Understanding and experience using vault capabilities.

About working for us 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
 

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%  

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance   

• Share schemes including free shares  

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping  

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top  

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies  

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!